Combined curtain-pole and shade-roller support.



No. 882,180. PATENTED MAR. 17, 1908.

- 'A. C. TAYLOR & P. W. DAWSON. COMBINED CURTAIN POLE AND SHADE ROLLER SUPPORT.

v APPLIOATION TILED MAY 3, 1907.

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AIKEN C. TAYLOR AND FRANK W. DAWSON, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

COMBINED CURTAIN-POLE AND SHADE-ROLLER SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 17', 1908.

Application filed May 3, 1907. Serial No. 371,592.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AIKEN C. TAYLOR and FRANK IV. DAW'SON, citizens of the United States, residing at Charleston, in the county of Charleston and State of South Carolina, have invented a Combined Curtain- Pole and Shade-Roller Support, of which the following is a specification.

The principal objects of our invention are to provide a light, inexpensive and ornamental bracket of peculiar construction which will form supports for a curtain-pole and ashade-roller, and in which the member constituting the latter support is adjustable in order to accommodate shade rollers of different lengths.

With these objects in view our invention consists of an attaching plate having a supporting arm secured thereto and projecting outwardly therefrom to provide the curtainpole support, a member slidably mounted on the plate and forming the shade-roller bracket, and means for securing the slidable member in adjusted position with relation to the attaching plate; said parts being constructed and combined as hereinafter fully described and specifically set forth in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification: Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the application of our invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the combined curtain-pole support and shade-roller bracket, on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both views of the drawings.

In carrying out our invention we employ in the first place an attaching plate or bracket 1, which is provided with rear wardly bent attaching ears 2, and at its longitudinal edget is bent upon itself to form the opposite angular flanges 3 which receive and embrace the opposite edges of a metal stri or member 4 and by means of which the latter is slidably connected to said attaching plate. The retaining flanges 3 are disposed in the rear of the plate or suporting bracket 1, and the front wall of the atter is provided with a slot 5 through which passes a set-screw 6 adapted to engage in one of a series of screw-holes 7 in the slidable member 4, whereby said member may be adjusted and secured to the attaching plate or supporting-bracket 1, the several screw-holes 7 permitting of a wider range of adjustment than is provided by the slot alone. The slidable metal strip or member 4 is provided at one end with the usual form of shade-roller bracket 8, as shown in the drawings.

9 designates that part of the device which forms the curtain-pole support, and in the present instance the same consists of a metal strip one end of which is bent into rectangular form, as at 10, adapted to receive one end of the attaching plate or supporting bracket 1, and to which it is soldered or otherwise secured. From the attaching end 10 the metal strip or curtain-pole support is bent in an ogee curve, the outer downwardly-curved portion 11 of which receives the curtain-pole while the inner upwardly curved ortion is adapted to pass over the shade-r0 ler so as not to interfere with the operation of the same.

In the resent instance we have provided two attac ling-ears for the plate or supporting-bracket 1, so that the same may be firmly secured to the window-frame, and as shown the set-screw 6 is in the form of a flat-headed thumb-screw so that it will lie close to the plate or bracket and out of contact with the curtain-shade.

In the application of the invention it will be understood, of course, that two devices are employed, one at each side of the windowframe so as to receive and support the pole and shade-roller at both ends thereof, and when applied the outwardly-projecting supporting-arms 9 will form the supports for the curtain pole from which the usual window draperies are suspended, while the members 4 will provide the usual shade-roller brackets for supporting the curtain-shade, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and inasmuch as the shade-roller brackets are adj ustable they may be arranged conveniently to accommodate any particular length of shaderoller.

It will be seen that by providing the slots as part of the adjusting means for the members or shade-roller brackets 4 any degree of adjustment may be given to the latter thus making it possible to give a ropcr bearin to the shade-roller and so that 1t will not bind in the supporting brackets. It will also be noted that the particular shape of the supporting arm 9 serves to locate the curtain pole in advance of the curtain-shade roll and without interfering with the operation of the latter in raising and lowering the shade.

Though the device is comparatively small 1 and ornamental, and therefore Will not mar the appearance of the Window frame to which it may be attached, yet in use it Will be hidden by the curtain-shade so that the only parts in view will be the outer portion of the polesulppo'rt and the slotted ear of the shadero er bracket.

The device can be readily and conveniently applied, inasmuch as the adjustments pro- V1 e that the same may be approximately located with respect to the length of the shade-roller and afterwards adjusted to receive said roller.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

In a curtain-pole and shade-roller support, the combination, of an attaching plate or bracket formed of sheet metal and comprising a slotted horizontal body portion, attaching ears depending therefrom and rearwardly I rejecting angular flanges at the u per and ower edges of said body portion; a at metal 'stri" slidably engaging the angular flanges an having threaded screw-holes spaced apart and a shade-roller bracket formed at one end of the strip; a set-screw engaging the slot of the attaching plate and one of the screw-holes in the metal strip to provide for adjusting and holding the metal strip on the attaching-plate; and a curved pole supporting arm bent into rectangular shape at one 

